Take up your crown and lift up your eyes. God’s calling you to rise.
Emmaline has lived on the streets of Konovia for years, haunted by memories of her family’s murder. With no retention of who her family was, she can’t help but wonder why God allowed her to live if her life is now spent begging for food and running from those who want to hurt her. Then comes the opportunity of a lifetime: the chance to either woo the crown prince with her beauty and spirit or become a lady’s maid for the next queen.
Emmaline’s desire is clear at first: become a lady’s maid. The last thing she wants is to become the future queen. After all, what would an orphan girl know about ruling an entire kingdom? And besides, love costs too great a price for her to pay again. But once she meets the kind-hearted prince with ghosts of his own, the thought of a fresh start is all too tempting.
But when an old enemy forces her to revisit her past and threatens her subjects from the shadows, Emmaline must rise from her family’s ashes if she’s to protect everyone she loves.
The stories of Queen Esther and Anastasia Romanov meet The Selection in Rise, a novel of finding hope in the darkness and reminding us that morning stars are not always trapped in the sky; sometimes, they live in our own hearts.